Новости за 26.03.2020

SAG-AFTRA has yanked Hanlon Talent Agency’s franchises agreement and told its members that they cannot “engage, use, or deal through this agency.” Run by Courtney Hanlon, the L.A.-based agency, which mostly represented commercial actors, appears to no longer be in business – not that there’s that much business in town now anyway. Its phone appears […]

The FBI said it has arrested Keith Lawrence Middlebrook, whose acting credits include small roles in films including Iron Man 2 and TV series like Entourage. He is being charged with fraud for allegedly soliciting investments in a company he claimed would be used to market pills that prevent coronavirus infections and a shot that […]

This time it’s really ending. NBC has set 9 p.m. Thursday, April 23, for the series finale of Will & Grace and will precede it with a half-hour retrospective special. Hosted by Eric McCormack, the look back also will include reactions from Will & Grace fans and celebrities who will share stories about what the show […]

UPDATE, with reactions Mark Blum, a veteran New York stage actor whose credits also include roles in the film Desperately Seeking Susan and the Netflix TV series You, has died due to complications from the coronavirus. He was 69. His death was announced by the Off Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons. SAG-AFTRA confirmed the news. […]

The UK government has confirmed it will economically support the country’s freelancers during the coronavirus crisis. Speaking in the daily press briefing from Number 10, chancellor Rishi Sunak said it will “pay self-employed people who have been adversely affected by the coronavirus a taxable grant worth 80% of their average month’s profits over the last […]

Actors’ Equity, the union representing actors and stage managers in live theater, is praising the $2 trillion Senate bill for the expansion of access to unemployment benefits that the bill will afford to arts and entertainment workers. The bill, which gives unemployed workers an extra $600 a week on top of their regular state benefits […]

EXCLUSIVE: In Living Color alumna Anne-Marie Johnson is set to recur in the second half of the sixth and final season of ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder. In addition, Cicely Tyson will reprise her role as Ophelia Harkness, the mother of Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), when the series returns next week. Johnson will […]

EXCLUSIVE: I hear the dailies of Jennifer Hudson in MGM’s Aretha Franklin biopic Respect are mind-blowing, and to tee off the feature just right the studio is moving it off its October 9 release date for a limited Christmas Day debut. From there, Respect will expand January 8 in theaters with a full-on wide release January 15, which is […]

ABC’s Stumptown ended its freshman season Wednesday delivering a 0.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 2.71 million viewers. The Cobie Smulders-fronted action drama, which was even with its penultimate episoded, bookended the network’s primetime lineup kicked off by The Goldbergs (0.9, 4.72M), which stumbled two-tenths in the demo. It was the same story […]

Idris Elba took to Twitter to alert everyone that his wife, Sabrina Dhowre, and him are “ok so far with no changes” after being diagnosed with coronavirus, and that the doctor informed them that “we will be immune for a certain time since our antibodies fought this.” The actor also mentioned “at some point we’d […]

Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to television on Monday (March 30) with remotely produced episodes. Host Jimmy Kimmel just dropped the news on Twitter and announced presidential candidate Joe Biden as his guest for tonight’s (March 25) abbreviated quarantine digital edition of the program. Guests next week include: Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Aniston, Jeff Tweedy, […]

ESPN and Fox lead the league as nominations for the 41st annual Sports Emmy Awards were unveiled today by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The Sports Emmys ceremony originally was for April 28 in Manhattan but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. NATAS has said the awards will be handed out […]

Some Fox News hosts have criticized one line item in the massive $2 trillion coronavirus relief package: $25 million for the Kennedy Center. But President Donald Trump, at his daily press briefing, defended the outlay, saying that the arts organization has “suffered greatly” because it has been forced to cancel performances and close during the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Cloudburst Entertainment, the recently-launched production and distribution company started by former Pure Flix execs Steve Fedyski and Ken Rather, has picked up the distribution rights to Infidel, a crime thriller from Cyrus Nowrasteh. Jim Caviezel, best known for Person Of Interest and Passion Of The Christ, stars alongside Claudia Karvan and Hal Ozsan. Cloudburst […]

T.I. is set to recur on Genius: Aretha, the next installment of Nat Geo’s popular anthology from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV Studios that stars Cynthia Erivo as the Queen of Soul. Antonique Smith and Tina Fears also have joined the project as recurring, while Ethan Henry is set to guest star as MLK, Jr. […]

The Producers’ Health Benefits Plan unveiled a sweeping relief package today in response to the coronavirus shutdown of the commercial production and post-production industry. “These measures will ensure that covered freelance employees are not at risk of losing their health benefits during this crisis; allows employers the option to temporarily insure laid off employees; and […]